(Photo: Kilii Yuyan)
This photograph originally appeared in the December/January 2018 issue of Pacific Standard.
Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.
Mahachai, Thailand: Burmese migrant workers peel shrimp at a processing factory in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province.
Siberia, Russia: A winter sunset near Ogoy Island on frozen Lake Baikal. With few passable roads, locals drive cars, jeeps, and even cargo lorries over the ice to shorten their journeys.
Mingaladon Township, Myanmar: Laborers in a brick factory, about an hour's drive from the new hotels and shopping malls of the city of Yangon, get by on $3 per day.
Bakhmut, Ukraine: A woman waits in a bus after an emergency worker-led evacuation from the embattled town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine.
Huth, Yemen: In April, children watch a dust devil whip up sand as it travels across the desert landscape near the town of Huth, about 50 miles north of Yemen's capital.
